Word: strife
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Unlike other African nationalists, Julius Nyerere, 38, educated at Edinburgh University, is a moderate who has kept Tanganyika an island of peace surrounded on all sides by strife and violence, notably the war in the neighboring Congo (see map, p. 21). Firmly in control of the Tanganyika African National Union, which holds 70 of the 71 seats in the new National Assembly, Nyerere believes that multiracialism is a sound policy for the emerging African states, has kept as his closest advisers former Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, who is now Governor General, and Finance Minister Sir Ernest Vasey. "Both the color...
...South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem has internal political problems far greater than Taylor had supposed-and those problems are hampering effective military action against the Communist Viet Cong. The people surrounding Diem are undercutting him, creating internal strife that gets in the way of U.S. efforts to bring some order out of the situation...
...film made by John Cassavetes. At the end you are informed of what you already suspected -- the movie is unrehearsed. "Spontaneous" is the word Cassavetes used. The film can sufficiently titillate the quasi-intellectual: it's full of inter-racial love, jazz, and long-haired guys. And inter-familial strife. Evenings...
...Goulart (see box) was a demagogue, a fellow traveler and unacceptable. He had shown his clear sympathies in Red China, "exalting the success of peoples' communes. As President, Goulart would become an incentive to all those who want to see the country fall into chaos, anarchy and civil strife...
...Cordebas, who lectured at the University of Algiers in 1959-60, added that the beginning of the period of peace in Algeria will prove even more trying than the current negotiations aimed at ending the strife, now in its seventh year...